(JACKSONVILLE) Funeral services for Winston E. Hardy, 83, of Jacksonville will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 22, 2007, at Tredegar Chapel Congregational Holiness Church with the Revs. David Daniels and Leslee Bailey officiating. Burial will be in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens.The family will receive friends at K.L. Brown Funeral Home and Cremation Center Friday, Dec.…
(OXFORD) Services for Grady Lee Whitmore, 82, of Oxford will at 2 p.m. Friday, Dec. 21, 2007, at Miller Funeral Home & Crematory with the Revs. Don Maddox, Billy Morris and Clinton Hobbs and Bishop Jerry Irwin officiating. Mr. Whitmore died Wednesday, Dec. 19, at Bill Nichols State Veteran’s Home in Alex City. The family…
WADLEY – Services for Herbert E. Jones, 79, of Wadley were Thursday, Dec. 20, 2007, at 2 p.m. at Mt. Olive Baptist Church South with the Revs. Zenus Windsor and Jimmy Brand officiating. Burial followed in the adjoining cemetery. Mr. Jones died Monday, Dec. 17, at East Alabama Medical Center, Opelika. He was a native…
(ROANOKE) Services for Taylor Allen Jacobs, 19, of Roanoke were Thursday, Dec. 20, 2007, at 2 p.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel, with the Rev. Fran Irmiter and the Rev. Ricky Cummings officiating. Burial was at New Hope Christian Church Cemetery. Taylor died Monday, Dec. 17, at East Alabama Medical Center, Opelika. Pallbearers were Russell Irvin,…
(ROANOKE) Services for Roy Ferrell Williamson, 55, of Roanoke will be Saturday, Dec. 22, 2007, at 11 a.m. at Quattlebaum Funeral Chapel, with the Revs. William Dean and Jeff Holder officiating. Burial will follow at Randolph Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5 to 7 p.m. on Friday. Mr.…
(ROANOKE)Services for Cecil Edward Madden, 76, of Roanoke will be Thursday, Dec. 20, at 2 p.m. at Highway Congregational Methodist church, with the Revs. Vernon Willis and Fred Flowers officiating. Mr. Madden will lie in state one hour prior to services at the church. Burial will follow at Providence Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will…
Funeral services are pending for a Woodland man who was killed while changing an 18-wheeler tire while at his workplace on Thursday afternoon of last week. Michael Keith Southerland, 26, of Woodland, an employee of McGriff Tire in Oxford, was airlifted to the trauma center at Floyd Medical Center in Rome, Ga., where he died.…
Troup/Chambers County Habitat for Humanity and the Randolph County Chamber of Commerce moved a step closer to building a house in this county Friday, as Janice Wright at Roanoke Realty accepted Habitat’s offer and earnest money. “In 2008 that is one of our goals — to have a Habitat build in Randolph County, one on…
The sudden change from 75-degree temperatures to 32-degree temperatures in the span of about one week in Alabama can mean only one thing — it’s almost Christmas. Christmas is an odd time of year in the sports world. It’s not that there’s nothing going on, it’s just that weird time frame when there’s not a…
The Wadley Bulldogs boys basketball team showed vast improvement last week, posting a 3-1 mark with wins over Alabama School for the Deaf, Horseshoe Bend and Woodland and a close loss to Edward Bell. Against Woodland, the Dogs kept control through most of the game and survived a late game charge from the Bobcats to…
WADLEY – Funeral services for Herbert E. Jones, 79, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20, 2007, at Mt. Olive Baptist Church South with the Revs. Zenus Windsor and Jimmy Brand officiating. Burial will follow in the adjoining cemetery. Visitation will be from 5:30 to 8 Wednesday and until service time on Thursday. Benefield…
It’s hard to find two teams more similar than Woodland’s girls’ basketball team and Wadley’s girls’ basketball team. Both teams are led by highly talented scoring machines in Courtney Strain at Woodland and Ebony Battle at Wadley. Both teams have a young, but athletic supporting cast. And both teams love nothing more than to beat…
WEDOWEE – During the Dec. 10 meeting of Randolph County Commission, the commission discussed fees and bonds to be required when subdivision plats are submitted to the commission for approval. The fee will be $250 for a minor subdivision and $500 for a major subdivision, plus $50 per lot. County engineer Burrel Jones said the…
Community service workers and trustees help unload the almost 42,000 pounds of fire hose received and distributed to 21 fire departments in Randolph County on Friday of last week as part of a Department of Homeland Security Fire Grant. The grant, totaling more than $352,000, was awarded to fire departments in Randolph and eastern Clay…
How about that Roanoke Christmas Parade? It reminded me of Christmas parades of old. Pat Truitt, Tim Jacobs and dozens of others deserve our thanks for a truly special holiday event. People from all over participated in the parade and seemed to have a great deal of fun waving at the large crowd. It was…
Many property owners along the shores of Lake Wedowee are taking advantage of the abnormally low lake level to build and repair sea walls and docks. Alabama Power Company, which manages the lake created by the company’s R.L. Harris Dam, is using the opportunity to cut standing timber that is normally below the water’s surface.…
The old Bartlett’s Marina, most recently known as the Lakeside Convenience Store, closed Saturday and will be demolished. But, it will rise again. One of the owners of Lakeside LLC, John Tinney, believes the lake is just going through a cycle and the waters will rise to pre-drought levels. The rebuilt Lakeside Market and Grill…
The Randolph County Board of Registrars has been hard at work since last summer — work that will culminate with the Feb. 5 presidential preference election. But, the public may not like some of the changes. Computerization of all records means some voters who have been in the wrong districts for years will be voting…
Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Emory Bonner, an unmarried man, as his sole &separate property, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for Bluestar Mortgage, Inc., on the 5th day of November, 2003, said mortgage recorded in the Office of the…
WEDOWEE – Randolph County’s veterans have a new Veterans Affairs officer. Roanoke native Rosalyn “Lynn” Houston is herself a Navy veteran, having served from January 1996 to November 2003 as an information systems technician. Houston went on to earn her bachelor’s degree in business administration and finance from Steven F. Austin State University in Texas.…